I didn't mean it as a top-down thing but as an aligned goals thing. If you do this you're basically paying a 7-10% tax on everything you do, forever, without the hyper-growth to justify/offset it. It's like selling out to Hollywood and then only doing bit roles. If you do YC, you should take VC. You would be stupid not to. I mean, YC is VC, right? It's a consistency thing.

No-YC and no-VC makes sense. Yes-YC and yes-VC makes sense. Yes-YC and no-VC does not make sense.